The second one has been treated like glass and is good thus far. Due to the nature of the plug, you should probably do something to protect it. What I did was buy a 1/4 inch female to female adapter and just connected the Rocksmith tone cable to another guitar cable with a 90 degree bend at the input jack.
https://www.amazon.com/Ubisoft-Rocksmith-Cable-Trilingual-playstation-2/dp/B00I0701P4

